Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
Introduction to Procreate and the Pencil Tool
A course by Paul Ryding , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Introduction to Procreate and the Pencil Tool
Overview
“In this lesson, I will introduce the Procreate application and show you how to navigate it. I will also teach you how to work the "Pencil" tool. ”
In this video lesson Paul Ryding addresses the topic: Introduction to Procreate and the Pencil Tool, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject. Combine the fundamentals of human anatomy and digital tools to create recognizable portraits with a personal and contemporary flair .
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction to Procreate and the Pencil Tool In this lesson, I'll introduce you to Procreate. How to navigate the basics of it, as well as understanding the Pencil tool and a few other little extra tips and tricks that I've discovered over my time of using it. This here is Paperlike, it's one of the covers you normally get for iPads, but what's different about this, is it replicates paper, which is almost supernatural how much it feels like actual paper. We have two in every pack. It's a little bit of an operation to get on. I will take you through that. Comes with an installation guide, h...”
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Course summary for: Modern Portraiture with Procreate: Stylize Your Subject
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Paul Ryding
A course by Paul Ryding
Paul Ryding is a Scottish illustrator based in Belfast. He always knew he wanted to be an illustrator and spent most of his youth drawing from photographs and magazines. He went on to study at Glasgow School of Art and had his work published in a magazine shortly after graduating. He spent the next few years honing his style before taking his career as an illustrator full-time in 2014.
Since then, Paul has worked with clients including Facebook, Forbes, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2020 he was commissioned by The Guardian to illustrate a series of long-form articles called “Lost to The Virus” about individuals who passed away from COVID-19. He also illustrated the cover for the best-selling book Trayvon Martin: Rest in Power.
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